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Claremont police responded to multiple 911 calls at 4:30 p.m. Thursday about a shirtless man with a bottle of laundry detergent dancing around a grey Tesla in the in the middle of Indian Hill Boulevard. When officers arrived at Indian Hill and Harrison Avenue, 30-year-old Newbury Park resident Diego Nocedal got in his car and drove north. The low-speed chase ended three minutes later at Sixth Street and Mills Avenue when police utilized a PIT maneuver to stop the car. But the drama, it turned out, was just beginning. Courier file photo
Claremont Courier high school sports roundup: April 21, 2023
The City of Claremont, the Friends of the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park and the Claremont Wildlands Conservancy are calling on the public for help in conducting surveys of visitors who visit the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park in the coming months.
On Easter Sunday, Ken Larsen first noticed water collecting on his pool deck and assumed he had a burst pipe, which is never good. But the water kept pooling, literally coming straight out of the ground, and before long it was flowing into his pool and flooding the lawn. It was then that he realized the problem was much bigger than faulty plumbing.
The 626 Golden Streets Heart of the Foothills open street event will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. throughout the cities of Claremont, Pomona, La Verne, and San Dimas this Sunday, April 23.
The Claremont Planning Commission has signed off on a plan that will add a second and third story, housing, and additional outdoor dining to the former Rhino Records building in the Village.
Last month at the Joslyn Center, the Shakespeare Club of Pomona Valley welcomed Craig Colclough for a lecture about his time on some of the world’s largest and most prestigious stages.
The Claremont Police Department recently recognized a trio with its Life Saving Award. Pictured above are members of the Claremont Police Commission, City Council, Police Chief Aaron Fate, representatives from The Claremont Club, and holding their awards (L-R) are Norma Perez, Michelle Bassette, and Joanne Livolsi, with Mr. Lew (in Hawaiian shirt). Photo/courtesy of Claremont Police Department
Two Claremont High School girls varsity relay teams shattered school records at last week’s Arcadia Invitational.
On April 7, the 4×800 meter relay team — Kaitlyn Smith, Isla Bulmer, Denise Jie Yi Chen, and L’Mio Edwards — earned first place with a time of 9:25.51, breaking the previous CHS record of 9:28.87.
Also on Friday, the girls’ sprint medley relay team of Zylah Araujo, Sade Escalante, Annika Graham-Scanlon, and L’Mio Edwards finished third with a time of 4:06.60, besting another school record (4:09.29) by nearly three seconds.
Claremont Courier high school sports roundup: April 14, 2023
Seeking asylum is a human right clearly codified in U.S. and international law, yet untold thousands of asylum seekers remain in limbo at our southern border, many unable to return to their homes due to imminent threats to their lives.
That logjam has for decades been a useful political cudgel for lawmakers looking to score points by being “tough on immigration.” But in March 2020, when the Trump Administration pressured the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue Title 42, it weaponized the COVID-19 public health crisis to effectively bar asylum-seekers, irrespective of the horrors from which they were fleeing. This exacerbated an already humanitarian crisis-level bottleneck, despite calls from the courts and from within the administration questioning the science and data behind the move.
Some residents claim College Park has become a hotbed of illegal activity and say it’s time the city took action.
At the March 28 Claremont City Council meeting angry parents of Little League athletes and people who live nearby described drug use in the bathrooms, arson, and violent behavior from a growing number of unhoused people who spend time in the park. The situation reached a crescendo last month when the fire department had to be called to put out a blaze near the playground, which forced the cancellation of a Little League game.
The developer who wants to build luxury single family homes at the former La Puerta Middle School site has elected to use a somewhat obscure provision of state law to get the project fast tracked.
On April 10, Citrus College announced psychology major Jessie San was one of 50 community college students nationwide named to the 2023 Coca-Cola academic team of gold scholars.
On April 6 several homeowners in the Stone Canyon neighborhood just off Mt. Baldy Road began to notice mysterious flooding in their yards. And then on Monday residents on New Hampshire Avenue and Moody Place noticed similar flooding that seemed to rise directly out of the ground.